Craft Business
Pricing Shipping Into a Handmade Product Without Losing the Sale
A maker can price a handmade piece carefully, account for materials, time, and a fair margin, and still lose money on the order...
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Pricing, selling and the honest math behind turning a craft into income.
Craft Business
A maker can price a handmade piece carefully, account for materials, time, and a fair margin, and still lose money on the order...
Craft Business
A quilter I know spent eleven hours on a custom commission, a queen-size memory quilt made from a client's late father's...
Craft Business
A woman messaged me last month asking, half joking and half genuinely frustrated, how I manage to run an alterations business,...
Craft Business
I once tallied a full year of wood purchases expecting a modest number and found I had spent enough to have bought a genuinely...
Craft Business
A fellow vendor at my Saturday market asked me last month how I paid for my first real set of shop equipment, assuming I had...
Craft Business
I broke a customer's cutting board in transit last winter, the first return I had ever gotten over shipping damage in four...